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I had the best of intentions to film a video during this four day Thanksgiving vacation. Unfortunately, I came down with a nasty bug Friday night and since then have mostly been sleeping. I was able to snap a few pictures during our quiet Thanksgiving Day meal.

This Thanksgiving was just Matt and me at home in our little basement apartment. It was perfect. I spent the day cooking a ‘lil Butterball turkey and all the other Thanksgiving accoutrements, including Matt’s mom’s English muffin bread and my mom’s cranberry sauce.

We took a quiet walk around our Le Droit Park neighborhood while the bird finished up roasting. Usually it’s bustling with cars, open bistros, and buskers, but it was almost silent on Turkey Day.

And Thanksgiving isn’t complete without watching at least two classic movies. A family tradition in our house is Planes, Trains, and Automobilesstarring John Candy and Steve Martin.

This was the second time I used Gordon Ramsay’s herb butter rub on our bird. I couldn’t find this particular recipe online. I saw him make it on a show he did for BBC and wrote it down a couple years ago. It’s so easy and makes the skin crispy and fragrant. And Matt did a great job carving it!

Our place is too small for a table, so we had our dinner diner style at the counter on our bar stools. We shared what we are thankful for this year and rounded out the night going to the movies to see Arrival starring Amy Adams. I loved it! Seriously, I may do an entire post about the film, I loved it so much.